Uber Back Online After Global Outage

Ridesharing and delivery service Uber is up and running after a major outage. Services in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia experienced problems Monday evening through Tuesday morning EST. Though these areas had the most reports, other areas reported problems as well, including India and South America.

Support Flooded With Requests for Help

As hungry customers waited for food that never arrived and offline drivers received trip assignments, requests flooded Uber support. Because the app wouldn’t respond, support requests crashed the website and phone lines at times.

But people still found a way to get through to Uber support. Customers and drivers around the world turned to Twitter to express their frustration. Support struggled to keep up with all the requests for help.

It seems like all of uber is down even the technical support just goes nowhere and the app keeps on crashing uninstalling and reinstalling doesn’t help #uberdown

An Important Lesson for Uber Users

Outages of this magnitude are uncommon, but they provide a valuable lesson for those who depend on technology-driven services like Uber. Even the most reliable services experience problems, but some downtime is unavoidable. When issues occur, have a backup in place just in case.

Monitoring Provides Outage Alerts Quickly

Continuously monitoring your domain alerts you of issues fast. Using a domain monitoring tool like Uptime.com keeps you in the loop. While monitoring can’t prevent an outage, you’ll be better prepared to tackle problems as they occur.

Other Outage Coverage

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